{"id":36494,"date":"2021-06-16T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36494"},"modified":"2021-06-16T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T01:08:59","slug":"appeals-court-affirms-north-carolinas-20-week-abortion-ban-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36494","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court affirms North Carolina&#8217;s 20-week abortion ban is unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s decades-old ban on abortions after 20 weeks is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court found on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirms the decision of a lower court, which first struck down the ban two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a felony in North Carolina for the past 140 years to procure or administer an abortion, but following the Supreme Court&#8217;s Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973, the law was amended to bar abortions after 20 weeks, with exemptions for medical emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed by a group of abortion providers and advocates in 2015, after the state legislature narrowed the medical exemption and further restricted the type of doctors permitted to perform abortions to &#8220;qualified physicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The amendments also instituted a 72-hour waiting period that women must observe before obtaining an abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s decades-old ban on abortions&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36495,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494\/revisions\/36495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}